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Unclassified road crash in Sandwell B68 on 18 January 1998 at 22:52 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Sandwell at 22:52 on Sunday 18 January 1998. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
18 Jan 1998
Sunday, 22:52
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.47634, longitude -1.99731, in the B68 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oldbury.

Map of where the crash happened in Sandwell

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199820K012801
Council area
Sandwell
Police force
West Midlands

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 February 2004.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    52 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 199820K012801 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Sandwell road accident statistics for 1998.